OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	22
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	19
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	11
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	8
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	7
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	7
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	7
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	6
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	5
On consular internationalism	5
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	5
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	5
Bibliography	4
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	4
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	4
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	4
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	4
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	4
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	4
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	4
Inter-regime conversations: What barriers persist for individuals in international law?	4
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	4
Protecting concessionary rights: General principles and the making of international investment law	4
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	4

LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
A forgotten proponent of a league of nations and his contributions to international law	3
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	3
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	3
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	2
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	2
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	2
China and international law: Two tales of an encounter	2
Bibliography	2
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	2
Bibliography	2
Between the utopian imaginaries of literature and international law: The question of the insurgent child in international legal discourse and Kris Montañez’s Youth	2
On membership of the United Nations and the State of Palestine: A critical account	2
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	2
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	2
Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute	2
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	2
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	2
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	2
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	2
Bibliography	2
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	2
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	2
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	2
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	2
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1
Prologue to truth: Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared and the authority of international law	1
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp, $28.00, ISBN:	1
The reactive model of disaster regulation in international law and its shortcomings	1
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	1
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	1
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	1
LJL volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	1
‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan	1
Bibliography	1
Bibliography	1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Bibliography	1
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
Resistance to territorial and maritime delimitation judgments of the International Court of Justice and clashes with ‘territory clauses’ in the Constitutions of Latin American states	1

Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	1
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	1
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	1
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	1
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	1
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	1
‘International Shanghai’ (1863–1931): Imperialism and private authority in the Global City	1
Aldo Zammit Borda, Histories Written by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Developing a Responsible History Framework, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2021, 276 pp., ISBN 978-94-6265-427-3, $149.99/€119	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	1